There were two wars in quick succession in the vicinity of Kashiwai Town, but few people knew about them at the same time.

This town is a small village in the vast Taihang Mountains, and to the west is the place where Li Maochun, the headquarters of the Ming army, defeated Li Yan's army: Xifengtai. And on the small valley road of Zhangjiawan in the east, there is a Ming army that will chase and kill the bandits one after another.

The two battles take place almost at the same time, and the endings are both surprisingly smooth and coincidentally short and concise.

With the nearby villages in his head like a living map, the summer king carefully avoided the avenue and path leading from Baijing Town to Shuangcai Shuliang, trekked through mountains and rivers, and walked up the stream until he finally took refuge in Nuanhuizhuang. The Zhuang advocate here carefully took him into his courtyard and instructed the summer king not to move.

More than half a day's tense march made Summer King exhausted, and returning to safety at this moment made his body quickly feel the trauma and pain surging from all directions after the adrenaline subsided.

Feeling all this, the king agreed to Zhang Tianyi's words without thinking about it, and then fell asleep in a daze.

Early the next morning, the summer king's punctual biological clock woke up. What made him feel strange was that no one brought him breakfast!

That's a big faux pas.

Even if the summer king didn't make this deal, there were still hundreds of brothers in the cottage behind him, and it would be easy to level a warm village. What's more, which cottage in Taihang Mountain is not inextricably linked to the name of the mountain under the mountain. Even if he didn't have the identity of the king of the mountain, Zhang Tianyi would never dare to slack off.

He sensed something was wrong, and he couldn't say how dangerous it was.

His natural vigilance made the summer king search left and right in the wing room in the backyard, and after ten breaths, he poked open the window paper with a round rod, and then held the round rod to investigate vigilantly.

Outside the window, it was empty.

"It's strange...... "King Xia knew that Zhang Tianyi was the big landlord of Nuanhuizhuang, and the Zhang family lived nearby, and as the suzerain, he had at least hundreds of servants under him, not to mention his relatives and heirs. In the outer courtyard of this wing room in the backyard, there was no one to be seen, and not a single voice could be heard.

Feeling strange, the summer king watched the situation outside for a quarter of an hour, and after seeing that no one really appeared, he couldn't hold back the doubt in his heart, and forgot Zhang Tianyi's instructions and walked out of the wing.

This is a simple courtyard house, poorly decorated, with many houses, and a rustic atmosphere inside and out. Even more rustic is a huge fence outside the courtyard. This is more of a wall than a dock fort. The whole village acts like a small fortress, enclosing the houses of the whole village to protect it.

There, countless crowds looked around, shouting and scolding, in stark contrast to the silence in the wing of the summer queen's backyard.

The Summer King suddenly understood.

"Someone's knocking on the door...... What kind of opponent is it that can force the whole of Nuan Huizhuang to go to the wall, and even the people in their backyard have gathered? King Xia thought, inexplicably thinking of the group of officers and soldiers he met yesterday.

But in an instant, the Summer King shook his head desperately and threw out this thought.

The heart was messy, but the summer king's footsteps were not slow, and he walked towards the front as he walked. Soon he was discovered by the people patrolling the fortress, his name was not small, and his momentum was even more special, and he was soon welcomed to Zhang Tianyi's side.

Zhang Tianyi is a tall Shanxi man, with a pair of smart eyes flashing, looking clever and shrewd. The body is not very stout, wearing a short robe, holding two steel knives in his hands, holding a little unsteady, when he saw the summer king coming, he was both anxious and expectant: "How did you do it, you actually let the sick summer king out of the room, damn it, who took care of it in the backyard?" Pull out the connoisseurs! Oh, King Summer, something happened in Zhuangzi, I didn't let you know about it, but I didn't expect you to bump into it......"

Seeing this, King Xia waved his hand again and again, he is also old and sophisticated, how can he not know that Zhang Tianyi is giving him an explanation?

He didn't care about the fate of a subordinate, and the summer king quickly shifted his attention to the crowd outside Zhuangzi with a few polite words: "Meng Zhang Zhuang took in, I am an idler and go out for a walk, no wonder who." But what happened to Zhuangzi? Say it, I can think of a way to repay you for your kindness! ”

Wufu spoke straightforwardly, and Zhang Tianyi was obviously used to it, and pulled King Xia up to a makeshift watchtower.

Although Zhuangzi built a wall on all sides, it was far worse than fortifications such as Guancheng, and people could see the figures outside when they climbed the wall, but they had to climb higher to see the situation outside.

On the watchtower, Xia Wang and Zhang Tianyi could carefully look at the situation outside.

Zhang Tianyi pointed to the camp tent in the mountain col in the west and said, "Something happened, it's the border soldiers who came...... Special mother, I sent out an old boy to talk about counting, and he was slaughtered! Anyway, I'm harboring traitors here, and I'm going to come in and search for them. These red-eyed red-eyed red-eyed guys ......"

After hearing this, King Xia's face suddenly changed: "Is it the army?" The army of the imperial court? ”

Zhang Tianyi nodded, feeling that something was wrong in his heart, but he still said with confidence: "Dressed in a red battle jacket, in tatters, flowing with anger, carrying a knife and carrying a gun, who is not a border soldier?" Oh, no. It may also be the ordinary garrison soldiers and guards. After all, they are all bandits. In these years, the soldiers are not even as good as bandits, and they don't even talk about the number of roads......"

Xia Wang became nervous and stared at it, until Zhang Tianyi's words were described more and more carefully, and more and more soldiers appeared in front of him clearly, he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief: "What should I be, it turns out that those soldiers in the Weize Pass of the Guguan are all those who can't fight." It is estimated that there are not many border soldiers who can fight......"

There is another sentence that King Xia did not say in his heart: Anyway, he will definitely not be in league with the soldiers who defeated these bandits.

Zhang Tianyi nodded fiercely, and he felt that the Summer King suddenly relaxed a lot: "That's great." ”

Encouraged by it, King Xia spoke more: "The most important thing is these soldiers, one soldier bears, and one bear." Those who lead the troops to fight are greedy for money and afraid of death, and such soldiers dare not rush to kill. Hold on for a round, kill a few people and let them know how powerful, and it's over......"

Just when the two of them said a word, the Ming army launched a charge.

The leader of the troops in front of him was Xu Deyi, who had just received the military order from Li Maochun, who was very excited, and drove more than a dozen pro-soldiers around him left and right like chicken blood, and drove hundreds of Ming soldiers behind him to scream.

Zhang Tianyi suddenly changed color: "This ...... These officers and soldiers are not right! ”

The Shun army, which had just rushed to defeat Li Yan's troops, was unusually high in the will to fight of this patchwork Ming army, especially after facing Minzhuang, which was weaker than the Shun army, it was even more excited.

"How can there be girls in the Shun army? Broke this warm meeting village, don't close the knife today! ”

"Brothers, break this Zhuangzi, there are thousands of Zhuangzi waiting for us to break it! Broken these bullshit old wealth, silver tickets, food and aunts all have it! ”

"Kill!" Xu Deyi couldn't stop bewitching behind him, and it didn't take long to see the soldiers' eyes turn red.

Zhang Tianyi didn't reply anymore, and went down to the watchtower to desperately command the family members around him to prepare for defense.

This fortress is said to be a fortress, but in fact, it is a fist-thick earthen fence, and in the face of the attack of high morale and professional soldiers, it is simply in tatters everywhere.

In less than a quarter of an hour, with the five fierce horses pulling in unison, the gate in front of the courtyard was rudely torn open. Then, a group of soldiers rushed up and fought with Zhuang Ding who rushed up with a roar.

Zhang Tianyi's eyes were red, and if he stepped forward and fought hard, he would bump into Xu Deyi, who was leading the troops to kill in front.

Xu Deyi, as the president of Qian, did not fall behind in his kung fu, and when he saw that this person who was obviously the leader came down with red eyes, he immediately laughed and killed head-on.

But seeing Zhang Tianyi holding a pair of steel knives, waving and killing, the silver light flashed, and the sound of shouting came one after another, and in one go, it seemed to sprinkle a basin of silver light, enveloping Xu Deyi.

Xu Deyi looked at it coldly, retreated more than ten steps in a row, and suddenly lifted his right foot to pick up a falling round stick on the ground and hit Zhang Tianyi's chest.

This blow came in the shade and fast, Zhang Tianyi couldn't dodge it, and he was hit hard. There was a burst of sweetness in his chest, and Zhang Tianyi's double knife swing also stagnated for a minute.

Secretly screaming in his heart, Zhang Tianyi was eager to retreat. The reaction in my heart is not slow, but my body is a little disobedient after being smacked.

At this time, a cold light flickered in front of him, and Xu Deyi lifted a dry silver spear, stabbed at his head, and aimed at Zhang Tianyi Tianlinggai.

Zhang Tianyi's heart was unspeakable, and he sighed in his heart, feeling that his life was short.

At this time, like a flying immortal in the world, a dry red tassel spear flew from nowhere, the red tassel hunted, and the tip of the spear stabbed Xu Deyi directly.

"A few moments!" As soon as Xu Deyi saw this scene, he understood that there was a master who came out, and if he continued to kill hard, he had to choose one life for another. Seeing this, he slammed his spear and rounded the red tassel spear that flew from the middle of the tip of the spear.

Seeing that Zhang Tianyi, who had picked up a life at this time, still dared to fall in love, he turned around and hurriedly withdrew. At this time, he found that the summer king, who had been ignored, didn't know where to find a red tassel gun, and he raided left and right, and came to the rescue.

"Summer King, I owe you my life!" Zhang Tianyi was excited.

"It's the same as yesterday, we're even! This is not the place to talk! King Xia said, pulling Zhang Tianyi all the way out of a bloody road, and retreated towards the backyard: "Hold the backyard!" They are all from the mountains, and they will definitely not stick to such a dock fort, so let your cronies and family take their younger siblings and nephews out! This time, I did it with me! ”

"!" Zhang Tianyi laughed and retreated to his own courtyard.

The courtyard, which was completely different from the silence when the king came out in the summer, was noisy, and there were bandits pouring in everywhere. These soldiers in military uniforms who were doing bandit things looked excited, and the strong men who were still guarding the dock fort were getting fewer and fewer, either dead or wounded or fleeing.

Only in the main room of the courtyard, a few women wept for a while, and then quietly dissipated.

Not long after, Zhang Tianyi's old housekeeper came back to recover and whispered something, and Zhang Tianyi's calm face felt a little more at ease.

"I can't avoid the catastrophe from the sky, and this time, I will be in charge." Zhang Tianyi bowed his hand slightly.

"Scheduled?" Xia Wang didn't answer this nonsense, he knew that many people who built a dock fort would dig a tunnel to escape, Zhang Tianyi was a shrewd person, and he would never miss this one.

"Hmm. They're coming......" Zhang Tianyi said, standing in the court, seeing soldiers in tattered clothes and armor pouring out from all directions, his expression unchanged.

After seeing so many people, King Xia's eyelids twitched, and he said in his heart: Lao Tzu ...... today I'm afraid I'm going to plant it here.

At this time, Xu Deyi, the head of the thousand who was holding a dry silver gun, separated everyone, stepped forward, looked at King Xia carefully, shook his head slowly, looked at Zhang Tianyi again, and said, "You are the Zhuang advocate Tianyi of Nuanhuizhuang?" ”

"That's right, it's me!" Zhang Tianyi looked directly at Xu Deyi.

"On the sake of how many moves you can make in the hands of this general, I will give you a way to live: hand over Chen Lu and spare your life." Xu Deyi looked around the entire courtyard, and there were only a dozen soldiers who were still fighting. However, there were as many as three or four hundred soldiers pouring into the entire courtyard.

"What Chen Lu?" Zhang Tianyi stared at the Summer King in confusion.

Xia Wang looked confused, he looked at Xu Deyi, and said, "You didn't come for my Xia Shou?" ”

"Xia Shou? What is the king of the eighteenth village of Lao Shizi Taihang Eighteen Villages? Hahaha......" Xu Deyi laughed: "I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, I originally wanted to cut off a few heads on the spot to report a merit, but I didn't expect to really catch a nest of bandits!" Hahaha, in this way, counting the first three Zhuangzi, and slaughtering the two of you, you only need to fight one more Zhuangzi! Hahaha...... What a pie from the sky! If I don't accept it, heaven will not tolerate it! ”

It turns out that this Li Maochun's so-called clever plan is nothing more than killing good and risking merit!

The so-called killing of good people and taking them to report military merits is to kill ordinary ordinary people and take them to report military merits, saying that after a few days of fighting, hundreds of soldiers were lost and more than 1,000 bandits were killed, and most of the bandits were actually these soldiers and bandits who killed good people and pretended to be military merits. This is also the reason why Zhu Cihong didn't believe it when he first reported his merits.

It is really the end of the martial arts festival in this year, although the reason is far from being so, but because there are many generals who kill good and risky to the point of outrageousness, so that the entire military generals are despised.

And right now, this Xu Deyi is obviously planning to break a few Zhuangzi, and when the time comes, it will be said that he was doing it by defeating Li Yanbu on the battlefield of Xifengtai.

When the time comes, the location of the characters will be right, and the military exploits will also be in line, and it is very likely that the merits of killing good and risking merit will be achieved to the point of a fait accompli!

It's just that Xu Deyi never expected that he planned to kill Liang and risk his skills to really be able to encircle and suppress the lone bandit boss! (To be continued.) )